The United States continues to militarize the Kyiv regime and push it to commit crimes, said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

In a post on his Telegram channel, he drew attention to a White House statement condemning "Russian airstrikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine."

The speaker of the State Duma rhetorically asked what efforts the United States is making to stop the shelling of civilians in Donbass and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

“And what did Washington do to stop the shelling of civilians in Donbass, where people live in fear, without water and electricity for more than eight years?

What is Washington doing now to stop attacks on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant by Ukrainian forces that threaten a nuclear catastrophe?

It just continues to militarize the Nazi Kyiv regime, pushing it to new crimes,” Volodin wrote.

The speaker of the State Duma recalled that all the goals of the special military operation would be achieved.

“The Kyiv regime will be denazified, and Western military assistance will be destroyed,” the parliamentarian stressed.

Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction

The military-civil administration (MCA) of the Kherson region stated that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the battles in this direction exceeded 3 thousand people.

Kirill Stremousov, Deputy Head of the Regional State Administration, spoke about this.

“Most of them are ordinary people whom the Kyiv regime mobilized by force,” Stremousov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

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He noted that there were no real advances of Ukrainian troops, and there had never been Russian troops in the settlements taken under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to Stremousov, we are talking about the villages of the so-called buffer zone.

Commenting on the situation in the region as a whole, he said that the shift of the front line would become a guarantee of the security of the Kherson region. 

“In order to stop the shelling of the region and guarantee its security, it is necessary to move the front line towards Nikolaev,” he told RIA Novosti.

The situation in the DNR and LNR

The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the Ukrainian military carried out an artillery attack on Krasny Liman on Tuesday night.

According to him, sabotage groups tried to enter the city, but their attacks were repulsed.

He stated this on the air of the Solovyov LIVE TV channel.

According to him, a tense situation remains in Svyatogorsk.

As Pushilin explained, it is not yet possible to talk about the full control of the allied forces over the settlement, but "there are certain prospects."

On the evening of September 12, Pushilin also spoke about the attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack the Donetsk airport.

According to the head of the DPR, this was done for "PR reasons."

“But there the valiant Sparta, understanding everything, realizing everything, did everything as it should.

The enemy - almost at full strength, the entire group was destroyed, ”Pushilin said.

In turn, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, Andrey Marochko, said on the morning of September 13 that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are changing the location of command posts due to the success of the allied forces.

“From the settlement of Artyomovsk to the settlement of Chasov Yar, the redeployment of command posts of units located at the forefront was noted,” he wrote in Telegram.

He also spoke about the construction of fortifications by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the west of Artyomovsk.

According to the data cited by Marochko, positions are being built “right in the courtyards of residential buildings with the expectation of using civilians as human shields.”

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As reported on the morning of September 13, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire, over the past day the enemy fired at the territory of the republic 40 times.

During the shelling, artillery of caliber 122, 152 and 155 mm, as well as tanks, were used.

A total of 195 units of various ammunition were issued.

According to the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR, over the past day in the republic, one person was killed as a result of shelling, five more were injured.

In addition, two people were injured after stepping on a PFM-1 mine dropped by the Ukrainian side.

Meanwhile, it is reported that the settlement of Bryanka, located in the LPR, was shelled from HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems.

According to the Luhansk side, the shelling took place around 23:10, four rockets were fired.